Hello R mailing list We are trying to use R and Sweave, running as a web service on a server to prepare statistical reports but are having problems with our anti-virus software apparently prohibiting execution due to what we think is Sweave trying to run an executable in one of the system's temporary folders.
As background, we use the following Rscript command to invoke Sweave (the text in %'s are system variables) Rscript -e Sweave('%script.dir%\\runstats1.Rnw',output='%uniquenum%-%fileend%.tex', debug=FALSE) %outdir% --slave This runs OK when run on a local machine, but when when we try to run the code as a web service, the following error messages occur: 2008-9-23 9:34:23 Would be blocked by Access Protection rule (rule is currently not enforced) CLW-H3P8L1S-BU\ASPNET c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_wp.exe C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\r\dfbe3c81\37929eb6\assembly\dl3\2a60fd88\0036ec07_80b5c601\antlr. runtime.DLL Anti-spyware Maximum Protection:Prevent all programs from running files from the Temp folder Action blocked : Execute 2008-9-23 9:34:23 Would be blocked by Access Protection rule (rule is currently not enforced) CLW-H3P8L1S-BU\ASPNET c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_wp.exe C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\r\dfbe3c81\37929eb6\assembly\dl3\84f8ea82\00eb8e7a_5ffbc701\Castle .DynamicProxy.DLL Anti-spyware Maximum Protection:Prevent all programs from running files from the Temp folder Action blocked : Execute etc (there were a few more) We have been able to configure the anti-virus software to allow Rscript.exe to run OK in temporary directories, but there seems to be a problem with Sweave trying to run an executable in one of the system's temp directories which the virus checker is then blocking. Has anyone else had any experience with this or have any tips as to what might be going on, least of all how to get around this? Thanks Paul. Paul Rustomji Rivers and Estuaries CSIRO Land and Water GPO Box 1666 Canberra ACT 2601 ph +61 2 6246 5810 mobile 0406 375 739 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.